Show girl 19 in boys attire prefers plow to kitchen kansas city mo well groomed in boys clothing eleanor vass nineteen year old farm girl sat in the police matrons matrona mat rons quarters here recently and said she would rather run a plow than a vacuum cleaner eleanor who was reared on a farm near vermillion ohio said she had been wearing male clothing for ten years and preferred male occupations to housework she was questioned about her activities while police attempted to communicate with her family the girl was turned over to police after she entered a hospital for treatment of an infected hand she appeared so natural in boys clothing that physicians failed to recognize her as a girl she admitted her name was eleanor and not tommy when attendants assigned her to to the mens men I 1 s ward police were notified ever since I 1 was little I 1 have done hard work on my fathers farm eleanor explained 1 I have five brothers and throe sisters and I 1 helped my father and brothers in the fields while my sisters helped with the housework |